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Stolen Cell Phone Shares Thieves' Photos?
eastbayted writes "A man from Berkeley, Calif. had his cell phone swiped. Soon after, the ShoZu starting uploading pictures to his Flickr account taken by the thieves — for the world to see. There's one of an unidentified woman eating something chocolatey, and a couple of either a chihuahua or a large rat. Seems this guy had installed some software on his phone to automatically perform those photo uploads, and whoever took his phone didn't realize it That's his story, anyway ... some people doubt it. He's a Yahoo employee. Yahoo owns Flickr. This is all pretty good PR for the photo site, no? He claims: 'People assume I'm doing it for self-promotion, marketing, a hoax or something like that. I'm talking to you because I want it to be known that it's not a hoax. I'm just too ordinary. I'm just too unclever for that.'" Update: 09/02 05:48 GMT by Z : Made the quote more obvious.
While $5 per month doesn't sound bad in the split second you're making a purchase decision, it's a horrible loss for the customer, in nearly all cases. Realistically, have you ever had a phone stolen? Probably what, 1 in 100,000 people lose their phone or have it stolen? If everyone were paying the additional $5 per month, Sprint just sold the equivalent of millions of additional phones, with no actual product cost or liability.
Just like any insurance plan, the only reason it's offered is because it's purely profitable for the company, not the consumers at large.
Not really. It seems like Slashdot's summaries are getting worse and worse lately; it seems like half the editors can't put a basic sentence together, let alone proofread what the submitters write. (mod parent up insightful, by the way)
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